Make tooltips display for controls modified with jquery-chosen

cokernel commented 11 years ago

Right now, tooltips display properly for all form controls but the ones modified with jquery-chosen. This fails for the modified controls because chosen plugin hides the original dropdown control (which has the tooltip attached) and does not attach a tooltip to the control it creates.

Here are the strategies I see for dealing with this:

Modify jquery-chosen's behavior so that it does copy over the tooltip. This might be possible by having it copy over all data fields.
Place tooltips on the labels instead of the inputs. The tooltip component in config/initializers/tooltip_component.rb references #input_html_options, and an analogous #label_html_options method is provided by SimpleForm::Components::Labels. I think this strategy might require some mild monkeypatching of SimpleForm to prevent the data fields from being dropped from the labels.

libmanuk commented 11 years ago

Sound reasonable. I have the tooltip text ready for the vast majority of fields.

cokernel commented 11 years ago

@libmanuk, we configure the tooltip text in config/locales/en.yml. This is written in YAML. Just as a preview, here's part of the configuration for repository fields:

  repository:
    abstract: This is the abstract.
              The configuration of this tooltip can span multiple lines.

    email: This is the email.

I can walk you through the process of submitting a pull request with your proposed tooltip text.

uklibraries / metadata_editor

Make tooltips display for controls modified with jquery-chosen #13